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An open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchants To everyone at Grammarly, I am writing a book right now, a really challenging endeavor that no doubt someone in Silicon Valley will think it’s fine to steal the day it’s published. I’ve been a profes...

> […] It’s wrong. It’s so enragingly wrong. I hope everyone in the world stops using your service. Because a business built on theft is not a business, it’s a scam.

– @moryan.bsky.social

#MaureenRyan #IdentityTheft #Grammarly #AI #Slop #LLM
www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

An open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchants To everyone at Grammarly, I am writing a book right now, a really challenging endeavor that no doubt someone in Silicon Valley will think it’s fine to steal the day it’s published. I’ve been a profes...

> […] I do not want to hear even the slightest amount of bullshit about how you didn’t need to ask for permission to use our names and use our identities in your review function. You just wanted to steal, so you stole. You wanted to take things without permission, so you did.

– @moryan.bsky.social

> You do not get to say that you don’t understand these very basic issues of autonomy, respect and self-control. You. Do. Not.

#MaureenRyan #AI #Slop #LLM
#IdentityTheft #Grammarly
www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

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From fake nudes to fake quotes: AI deepfakes plagued Olympic athletes U.S. Olympians faced a surge of AI-generated harassment and political manipulation during the Milan Games. New reporting reveals how open-source AI models on platforms like 4chan and Telegram are bein...

Trolls on 4chan generated sexualized images of female athletes, and the White House shared an AI-manipulated video of a hockey player—welcome to the new normal. via @derekbjohnson.bsky.social cyberscoop.com/ai-deepfakes...

Quite like that the thumbnail here makes me look as if I've just taken massive offfence at something @grahamcluley.com has said.

Yeah, first off, is it for a raccoon or a human?

Have you considered publishing this anywhere that is not #Substack?

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Kansas Secretly Spent Years Making a List of Trans Residents. Today, the State is Taking Their IDs. An investigation from Transitics has revealed that, under a Democratic governor, Kansas built a list of the state's trans people. Now, Republicans are weaponizing it to revoke their IDs.

An investigation from Transitics has revealed that, under a Democratic governor, Kansas secretly built a list of the state's trans people.

Today, Republicans just weaponized it to revoke their IDs.

transitics.substack.com/p/kansas-sec...

The Trump Administration is Testing Conversion Therapy By Medically Experimenting on Trans People in Prisons The Bureau of Prisons is subjecting trans people to conversion therapy and denying them care with the goal of helping them "recover." It's trying to prove dangerous conversion practices can work.

Under a new policy released Thursday, the Trump Administration will test conversion therapy on trans people in prisons. It explicitly states that it aims to help trans people “recover,” all the while forcibly detransitioning them both medically and socially.

transitics.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

that sound you hear is the deafening laughter of trans people

Day's End (After-dusk Mix) YouTube video by DJ Krush - Topic

Day’s End [After-dusk Mix]
DJ KRUSH, Kazufumi Kodama
Stepping Stones: The Self-Remixed Best • May 24, 2006
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRLT...
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We are living through dark, disturbing and dangerous times, but do not despair — the cavalry is coming! Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band will be taking the stage this spring from Minneapolis to California to Texas to Washington, D.C. for the Land of Hope And Dreams American Tour.

douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

KS Sen. Cindy Holscher, cont’d:

“You are eight times more likely to get struck by lightning, you’re 50 times more likely to die in a car crash, you’re 100 times more likely to be killed by gun violence, and you are 3,500 times more likely to be sexually assaulted by a man.”

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KS Sen. Cindy Holscher, D-Overand Park, challenged the Republican-led majority to show evidence that sexual assaults occur in bathrooms by trans people. She quoted various studies to back up her calculations that Kansans have a .00083% chance of being assaulted by a trans person in a restroom.

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This bill includes criminal penalties and a bounty provision. It also authorizes the state DMV to strip trans people off their current drivers licenses.

AI Delusions Are Leading to Domestic Abuse, Harassment, and Stalking ChatGPT and other AI chatbots are reinforcing users' delusions about other people — fueling fixations linked to stalking and other abuses.

NEW: ChatGPT and other chatbots are feeding users' fixations on real people, reinforcing users' delusional ideas and obsessions about others as they descend into unwanted harassment, stalking, and/or domestic abuse — traumatizing victims and profoundly altering lives.

futurism.com/artificial-i...

Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses technical wireframe in patent-drawing blue, exploded view showing every camera, microphone, and sensor packed into what looks like normal eyewear. Someone has helpfully corrected the branding on the temple arm and logo to read "MEGA CREEP" instead of "Meta," which is the most accurate product rename since Facebook became Meta to dodge its own reputation. The engineering is impressive. The ethics are not.

Meta Wants to Scan Every Face You Walk Past 👓🔴

Meta plans to add facial recognition to Ray-Ban smart glasses. An internal document says they timed launch during political crisis so civil society wouldn't notice.

blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/14/m...

Bud Cort obituary American actor who starred in the 1971 dark comedy film Harold and Maude that later became a cult classic

RIP American actor #BudCort, best known for playing Harold Chasen in the 1971 countercultural cult classic romcom Harold and Maude.

www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...

That cover feels so 80s sci-fi now 🧑🏼‍🎤🛸

Netflix's Surrender Has Already Begun A CEO calling his own company's past a "mistake." A 47-page report designed to be cited, not read. The pressure campaign that broke Facebook is back for Netflix.

Today's newsletter is about the very bad feeling I got from watching the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing about Netflix this week www.readtpa.com/p/netflixs-s...

NEW YORK POST: TAX THE RICH = COMMUNIST PARTY! 🥂☭

Emoji of the year: 🫩🏆

"Siri Knowledge"

Snag your tickets for the East Coast premiere of our "refreshingly quirky road trip comedy," WHERE IN THE HELL!!

queensworldfilmfestival.org/films/where-...

Weds, Nov 5, 2025 at 6:30pm
Museum of the Moving Image
36-01 35th Avenue, Astoria, NY 11106

Opening night for @queensworldff.bsky.social 👑🍿🎉

#FreePalestine #BoycottIsrael

Custom Ford pick up decked out with an unbelievably cool Free Palestine vinyl wrap job featuring Yasser Arafat and Palestinian flags on the roof.

Spotted by #CaryTijerina in Williamsburg 🇵🇸

More photos at carytijerina.com